Review: Counting Crows

Fame may be eternal, but popularity is fleeting. The Counting Crows became famous and popular in the early 1990s, not long after releasing their first album, “August and Everything After.” They sold more than 7 million copies of that album, headlined amphitheaters and made it into some tabloid/gossip headlines (lead singer Adam Duritz dated Jennifer Aniston and then Courteney Cox of “Friends”)

Fame may be eternal, but popularity is fleeting. The Counting Crows became famous and popular in the early 1990s, not long after releasing their first album, “August and Everything After.” They sold more than 7 million copies of that album, headlined amphitheaters and made it into some tabloid/gossip headlines (lead singer Adam Duritz dated Jennifer Aniston and then Courteney Cox of “Friends”). Things are different these days. Tuesday night, the Crows headlined a show at Starlight Theatre, drawing a crowd that couldn’t have been more than 2,500 people — small enough to fit in one of our theaters or Crossroads...